Metadata record for National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 20034099Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.2017-09-26National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2003N-SSATS, 2003409910.3886/ICPSR04099.v4United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied StudiesPlease see full citation.United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied StudiesAnn Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research2004-10-18National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) Series2015-11-23Covers for the PDF documentation were revised.2014-07-17Changed the Stata system data file from version 13 to version 12 for compatibility on a wider range of systems.2014-04-25This study update was done in order to remove the geographic variables of County and MSA.2013-11-27Updated ddi file to include variable-level groupings.2012-03-30Updated the queston text to fix minor typographical errors previously present. Also, updated the variable order so that it coincides with the questionnaire order and is consistent with other years in the N-SSATS series.2005-11-04On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2003. ICPSR04099-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-11-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04099.v4http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04099.v4alcohol abusedrug abusedrug treatmenthealth care servicesHIVinterventionsubstance abusesubstance abuse treatmenttreatment facilitiestreatment programsFENWAY VI. Studies That Include Heterosexual PopulationsNAHDAP I. National Addiction and HIV Data Archive ProgramRCMD V. Health and Well-BeingSAMHDA XIII. National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)ICPSR IX. Health Care and Health Facilities

The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is designed to collect information from all facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide substance abuse treatment. N-SSATS provides the mechanism for quantifying the dynamic character and composition of the United States substance abuse treatment delivery system. The objectives of N-SSATS are to collect multipurpose data that can be used to assist the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and state and local governments in assessing the nature and extent of services provided and in forecasting treatment resource requirements, update SAMHSA's Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), analyze general treatment services trends, and generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its online equivalent, the
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator.

20032003-03-312003-10-01Please see geographic coverage.United Statesfacilitysurvey dataLongitudinalThe Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) provides the sampling frame for N-SSATS. Two categories of treatment facilities in I-SATS may be distinguished. The largest group of facilities includes those that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by the state substance abuse agency to provide substance abuse treatment. The second group represents the SAMHSA effort in recent years to make I-SATS as comprehensive as possible by including treatment facilities that state substance abuse agencies, for a variety of reasons, do not license or certify. Many of these facilities are private for-profit, small group practices, or hospital-based programs.MailTelWeb

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.Created variable labels and/or value labels.Standardized missing values.Created online analysis version with question text.Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.Data were collected by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA.N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date. Client counts do not represent annual totals. Rather, N-SSATS provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on an average day.N-SSATS collects data about facilities, not individual clients. Data on clients represent an aggregate of clients in treatment for each reporting facility.N-SSATS attempts to obtain responses from all known treatment and prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey. There is no adjustment for facility nonresponse.To protect the privacy of respondents, financial data originally collected have been removed from the public use file. These modifications should not affect most analytic uses of the public use file.

For users who wish to calculate client counts and admissions, instructions are available on the N-SSATS Series page and at
How to calculate N-SSATS client counts and admissions using SDA.

N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of 17,787 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment services. Of these facilities, 15 percent were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed, were not providing substance abuse treatment on March 31, 2003, or treated incarcerated clients only. Of the remaining 15,124 facilities, 95.9 percent (14,503) completed the survey. However, 880 of these facilities were deemed to be out-of-scope or had client counts reported by another facility but no facility information. Therefore, the final sample size was 13,623 (90 percent). Forty-nine percent of respondents completed the mail survey, 24 percent completed the survey via telephone, and 27 percent completed the survey using a Web-based questionnaire.Ann Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchAdditional special permissions, where applicable, are described in the restrictions field.Users are reminded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals or treatment facilities.

Terms of use are available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/4099/terms

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.